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UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

MORRIS P. BRAY, ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO AUGUST FELLHEIMER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

C RS ET SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patentfio. 412,015, dated October 1, 1889. Application filed June 1'7, 1889 Serial No. 314,526. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: A represents the strap, which is secured to Be it known that I, MORRIS P. BRAY, of the front of the corset, or maybe made as an Ansonia, in the county of New Haven and integral part of one or more of the portions State of Connecticut, have invented new Imof the front of the corset, and extends there- 5 provement-s in-Corsets; and-I do hereby de- I from so as to pass over the shoulder of the clare the following, when taken in connecwearer. On the rear of the corset, and near tion with accompanying drawings and the let the rear edge, a pocket B is formed, of a length ters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, extending from near the bottom of the corset clear, and exact description of the same, and upward to or near to the top, the pocket be- 10 which said drawings constitute part of this ing open both at top and bottom. The width specification, and represent, in of this pocket corresponds to the width of the Figure 1, a side View of a corset embodying strap, and so that the strap may pass entirely the invention; Fig. 2, a rear view of one-half through the pocket and project below, where the corset; Fig. 3, a vertical central section it is adjustably attached to the corset, (here I 5 cutting through the pocket; Fig. at, a transrepresented asbyabutton 0,) the strap being verse section cutting through the pocket. provided with one or more button-holes D. This invention relates to an improvement By this construction the lifting or supporting in that class of corsets which are provided strain of the strap is taken from apoint on the with shoulder-straps. In the more general back below the waist-line, and so as to leave 20 construction of this class of corsets the straps the corset free around the waist-line and are attached to or made an integral part of above, so far as the strain or pull of the strap the rear portion of the corset, and extend is concerned; also, the adjustable connections over the shoulder and attached to the upper between the straps and the corset are carried end of the corset at the front. This attachto a point so far below the waist-line as not to 2 5 ment, for convenience, is made so that the interfere with. the dress of the wearer, as strap may be detached for putting on or remust always be the case to a greater or less moval of the corset, and should be so made extent where the strap is secured near the as to make it adjustable. In some cases the top and at the rear. straps extend from the frontover the shoul- The portion of the strap which runs through 30 der, and are in like manner connected to the the pocket may be and is preferably made 1-. top of the corset at the rear. This brings from webbing and the shoulder-strap stitched the strain upon the corset directly at the thereto, as shown; but the strap may be in a shoulders. continuous strip, if desired.

The object of my invention is to take the It will be understood that a like pocket is 5 strain off the shoulder-straps at the rear and provided on each side, one for each strap.

at a point below the waist-line, so as to leave I claimthe corset substantially free ab'ove. A corset constructed with vertical pockets To that end the invention consists in conon the rear and near the rear edges, the said structing the corset with vertical pockets near pockets extending from near the bottom up- 40 the rear edges, and extending from near the ward toward the top and open at the top and bottom of the corset to the top or nearly to bottom, combined with shoulder-straps eX- the top of the same, the pockets open at the tending from the front over the shoulders and top and bottom, combined with straps extenddown through said pockets, with an adj ustaing from the front over the shoulder down ble attaching device between the straps and 45 through said pocket, and with a detachable the corset below the lower ends of the pockets,

securing device between the straps and corsubstantially as described.

set below the lower open end of the pocket, MORRIS P. BRAY.

The general cut of the corset otherwise than \Vitnesses: the shoulder-straps and connection is imma- FRED C. EARLE, 5o terial. J. H. SHUMWAY. 

